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The Heart of Jacob
0₦3,576.50Jacob as a moneylender and pig merchant prospers by taking advantage of other people’s misfortunes. But when he seeks to exploit the famine afflicting his village Tounga by lending money to the poor villagers with high interests, he does not reckon with a sacrilege his pigs would commit that will give the people an opportunity to feast on his own misfortune. When this happens, community gives way to individual desires, and the stomach dictates to the head what it should think and believe in. Reason bends to absurdity and custom bows to bizarre novelty. Life explodes into a sinister mess that points to only one outcome: Jacob’s and society’s ultimate ruin.
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Farewell to Peace
0₦3,576.50Belaru loses his parents to death and becomes an orphan at the age of seven. He blames free trade for his parents’ death. If the textile company his father was working had not been killed by free trade, his father wouldn’t have lost his job. If his father had not lost his job, he wouldn’t have died. If his father had not died, his mother wouldn’t have become heartbroken and died soon thereafter. From a deep sense of injustice, Belaru later launches a blistering war against an international economic order that operates by the rules of might is right. For Belaru and his Tendu-Purgers, it is farewell to peace for the world if developed nations insist on perpetuating might is right.
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Tales of the Rubbles
0₦7,619.50Rilee a journalist tells the story of the Cozien-Minli war in a way no one could. By her tongue, rubbles of the war find voice to tell the agony of the war with haunting images that wake people at midnight in nightmares.
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MAKING SENSE OF NONSENSE
0₦7,883.85Japhet the son of a priest and a lawyer sets out to make sense of religion, law, war, politics, economics and a myriad of other issues, but ends up where he began his journey.
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Dance of the giants
0₦9,438.85Kaljenteh is outside the understanding of his people who he said knowledge of the universe is outside. For years, the astronomer and evolutionist, talks about how evolution created the earth and other planets and how it would end the planets it created, but few people hearken or even understand what he is saying.
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The Deportee
0₦4,649.45Deported from Russia after thirty years of Sojourn, ill-treated by relations in Nigeria, Morgan the deportee goes mad leaving behind many unasked as unanswered questions.
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Idiotic
0₦7,759.45Kailee starts out as one obsessed with science and technology only to be let down by the duo he sees as the pathway to the heaven of the earth. When this happens, Kailee turns against science and technology in a blistering campaign that exposes the dark side of science and technology; in a campaign that lands him in court that consumes him as persecuted; in a court the persecutor realizes the persecuted has been fighting for him as for everyone and everything on earth.
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The Old Woman and th…
0₦6,204.45Teka stumbles on the old woman and the birds in the forest. He is mystified by both into thoughts and beliefs hitherto weird to him.
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Ebelebe
0₦4,649.45Petutu returns from the war with messages for the widow of a slain comrade. He is kidnapped to a shack kidnappers send chilling messages to relations of their captives. In the sky however, doves also bear messages that make Petutu glow with happiness.
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The Dark Star North
0₦6,204.45Pristine and unpolluted, the earth is the green star north to spirit beings in Kenon two planets away from the earth. When the earth gets polluted and defiled losing its green colour that improves the sights of spirit beings in Kenon, the earth turns dark and is now called the dark star north by the spirit beings.
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Twilight for a Vulture
0₦3,576.50Imka the vulture cannot find food in the forest; neither can he see any other vulture. He sets out for the city where he finds so many vultures. There is food in the city when Imka arrives. But there is also death. Sakko, Imka’s friend, falls into a trap and dies of hunger and misery in the grind of desolation. Later, food also forsakes the city, and Imka together with two other vultures, set out for Parsee country where they hope to find food only to be overtaken by blight and ruination on the way.
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My Letter to the Devil
0₦5,520.25Fair Moree is frightened by what he sees happening around the world. Suspecting the devil to be responsible for what is going on in the world, he writes the Prince of Darkness a long letter pleading with him to have mercy and retrace his steps. This novella bears the letter he wrote the devil. It is a dark letter that can only be read in the dark.
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Our Lady with the Sword
0₦6,204.45After losing her son to suicide bombing and her grandson to a gunman on a shooting spree, heartbroken Anette goes through history exhuming the corpses of injustice that lay buried under the earth, blaming the goddess of justice for all cases of injustice. When someone she knows is an armed robber and a murderer wins the Nobel Prize for Peace, Anette’s disillusionment with the goddess of justice is complete. She whines and kicks only to fall under the sword of injustice herself.
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Gods of my Fathers
0₦6,204.45Before his death, Dendo’s father charges him to stick with his ancestral gods. After his father’s death, Dendo abandons the gods of his fathers for an alien god – a decision that sets him on a warpath with his ancestors out to recover him from the life of a dog to that of a wolf; from the life of an idiot to that of a genius.
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Bivan’s House
0₦9,314.45Talgon a small-time contractor in the West African nation called Bivan’s house sets out to be honest in his dealings, but finds himself alone in a sizzling corruption that smears the virtuous as much as the crook. In Bivan’s house, the vulture by his opportunism is feasting on the ruins of his preys without pity; the tortoise by his cunning is running faster than the antelope to collect, without remorse, prizes he has not won, and the rat by his thievery is filling his barns with the harvest of the rabbit without regret. Flames of violence, fraud and scams blaze a trail that leaves Talgon wondering how it all began and where it will leave the West African nation called Bivan’s house.
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The Lone Piper and the Birds’ Case
0₦3,576.50Among the birds of Kirkina savannah, no bird can sing like the Lone Piper – a black-crested bird. When a strange disease the birds suspect is spread among them by aircrafts flying over the savannah begins to afflict the birds, the lone piper by unheard melodies and moving rhapsodies roused the birds to a war on aircrafts that shocks and stuns the world.
